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FACE TWO . THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, l jir They Thrive On ly in Darkness THUI Arm All y The cr in t' Edward Capt. 1 ector o pital O wore r vage o typical stallatii camps Ap)i fed at Center ralvage per m have t that or 740 pc the Qi Moore "On. Edwan ed to ! cans u That i and gi "Ou: gram i hold ir is to c as sooi fat is or to 1 Bones the fl leavinj stock "Ne our re ties, i mings rendet torn o: rase c we re that v eg?s, July, single "M Mi ill a Mrs. impr Ft and mere horn visit Tl part; who vtit per. CI the Diep of I vice. M F F. Si T B K -- c The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. . IESTER A. WALKEE, PUBLISHER DON J. AEUNDEL, BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second clasi nail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. r SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car rier in the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or S7.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: , S3 per year, $1.75 for six months, $1.00 for three months, cash .In advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Come On, Plattsmouth, Let's Go Rijjrht now is the time for every citi zen in Plattsmouth to make up his mind what kind of a town he wants' this to be. Riyht now is the time to decide which, side you want to represent. The choice is simple. Is Plattsmouth to settle back and relax while old age gradually saps its strength; or would you rather develop its polentialties so it becomes more vigorous and prosperous? Is Plattsmouth to be a town your chil dren will want to leave because they can make a better life for themselves' " somewhere else; or would you rather see them able to find the opportunities - they want and deserve right here? Is Plattsmouth going to be overshad owed by smaller, yet more progressive communities; or would you rather see it assume its responsibilies of leader ship in community development? Is Plattsmouth to be a town without adequate recreational facilities, with out a place for public meetings, with out a spirit, without a will to grow; or would you rather be able to stand up to a stranger and point with pride at what you have instead of apologizing for what is missing? Is Plattsmouth to sleep contentedly like a cat on a warm stove, hoarding its energy and resources; or would you rather see it get up and go after the things it needs to make it a better place ' in which to live? Yes, the-choice is simple. Hut merely recognizing the need for improvement is not enough. Civic de velopment will never take care of itself. It needs the help of the individual. The individual is you. When you've made up your mind what kind of town you want Platts mouth to be, say so. Don't just leave it up to the few people in public office to decide for you. They are your em ployees whose only job is to serve you. Tell them what you want. Let them know what you expect them to do. You're giving the orders. So, come on, Plattsmouth, let's go. Accused and On Trial Once again a series of discussions vital to the lives and welfare of all people has been carried on in secret Hut fortunately the doors of Lancaster House in London, where the Council of Freign Ministers has been meeting, are not leakproof. So this conference, liko so many other, has been reported by means of rumors, whispers and confidences.- What the world, and particularly this country, has heard through these "leaks" has not been encouraging. Vet eran and usually imperturable report ers have written darkly pessimistic sto ries. Day after day they have told of angry words and widening rifts. About the most cheerful thing they could say was that the difficulties' are perhaps not insoluble. What has happened in London is, in a way, more significant than the his- toric proceedings in San Francisco. There the discussions covered only the general structure of a world peace or ganization. Difficulties were expected though when they appeared they were of such proportions as to threaten a blow-up of the whole conference for a few anxious days. Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov is said to have remarked angrily during one meeting: "You would think I was accused and on trial." If the pessimistic reports are accur ate, 3Ir. Molotov and Mr. Hevin certain ly stand accused of starting to re-establish hostile spheres of influence which, as they well know, are breeders of war. They stand accused of forgetting the en tn J MtKW PKA&SOV WASHINGTON Last week this column re vealed that two military intelligence colonels in Washington warned their superiors that the Germans were about to launch the disastrous Belgian bulge attack in December 1944, and urged that General Eisenhower be put on guard. It was also revealed how this advice had been ignored with the result that Amer ican forces in the Ardennes forest were caught off-guard and their thin line of defense wiped out, resulting in 60,000 casualties and weeks of further warfare. An additional chapter to this tragic blunder can now be told. On December 10, 1944, six days before the German surprise attack. Col. B. Albert Dick son, chief of intelligence for the Second army, wrote a strong report to his superiors warn ing a German offensive was coming. His re poit, labelled "No. 37," is in the files of the war department and is available to ny senate committee wanting to get the real truth re garding this blunder which cost so many Amer ican lives. Colonel Dickson reported that i'rOm inter viewing captured German prisoners, he was convinced they were planning a big attack, lie reported a new spirit of jubilant enthus iasm on the part of the Germans he interview ed, a new determination to escape and go back to light in the offensive. He even reported that the Germans were training men to infil trate behind American lines as" American soldiers. It will be remembered that later, nazi troops were found dressed in American uniforms be hind our lines. Colonel Dickson even prepared a map show ing villages where German reserves were bd leted in preparation for the Belgian bulg attack. And he urged that they be bombed out immediately. This recommendation was never followed. If it had been, the story of tragic American los-es would have been dif ferent. Instead, the 12th army group wrote a report on December 12, refuting Colonel Dickson's report of Dec. 10. It replied that such an attack could not happen. Later, on December 1G, Shaef, the head quarters of General Kisenhower, wrote a G-2 "appreciation," stating that a German surprise attack could not happen. However, Dec. 16, the date of this report, was the actual day it did happen. So, later in the day, Shaef hastily withdrew this "appreciation"' and substituted three other pages in its report. The original report, there fore may not be available to a congressional committee. However, if the senate asks for the ''after' action" report on the bulge battle it will find that it contains in black and white the story of how the army was warned the r.azi attack was coming, and was even urged to bomb the waiting German reserves, but completely ignored that warning. Note U. S. casualties in the bulge were 60,000 compared with less than 3,000 at Fearl Harbor. Truman Deserts FDR How drastically Harry Truman and Attor ney General Tom Clark are deserting one of Fianklin Roosevelt's principles was indicated by a recent incident which few people noticed. One of the great battles Roosevelt fought wa- against the big utility companies. But the other day, a judge appointed by Truman to one of the most important courts in the country handled a case, even after his con firmation, on behalf of one of the Lig power companies. He is Judge Wilbur Miller, re cently appointed to the U. S. court of appeals for the District of Columbia, which handles more important test cases than any other appeals court in the nation. However, even after Miller was confirmed by the senate ,he appeared last week before the federal power commission on behalf of the Kentucky Natural Gas company. This makes it unanimous. For both of the other two judges Truman appointed to this important appeals court, Ex-Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri and Barrett Prettyman, also have been attorneys, for the big power companies or have been anti-public power. Truman Betters FDR In the White House about the same time, Donald Nelson, former WPB boss, called on his old friend Harry Truman. Nelson now represents the Independent Motion Picture companies, such outfits as Walt Disney, Frank Capra, Walter Wanger, Sam Goodwyn, Dave Selznick, who, when they produce pictures, can't get them shown because the big five own and control the theatres. They claim that the big five have one of the tightest monopolies in the country, the equivalent of a newspaper owning all the newstands in a city so no other paper can be sold. Twice before, the justice department has started to break up the movie monopoly, but each time outside higher-ups in the persons of Jimmy Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins have interevened. So Donald Nelson inquired of Truman just where he stood on the motion picture case, and whether the compromise consent decree proposed by the movie moguls, which hushes the whole thing, wa.? in conformity with Tru man's past record on anti-trust. The president replied emphatically that Tt was not. In this case he seemed ready to go further than FDR. He said he wanted no compromises. ''The case will go to trial,'' he tsaid, ''or else.'' principles of world security to which their governments are committed, and of being jealously and fearfully nation alistic, and stubbornly power-minded. They stand accused of insincerity in their claims of "independence" and . "full representation" in present Haltlc " governments. They are on trial for be traying the prayerful wishes of the or dinary people who fight and suffer and die in wars" by pursuing a course which could render the United Nations Or ganization impotent even before its first meeting. .-. -.t . 1 -at f 1 . A t I .Mil r vv Aft 4 --yi ' &c OR EN A R.NOL ED Cuprrisht by NLA SERVICE. Inc. ESCAPE TO ARIZONA XIII (AROLYN was at a telephone. "Hello! Hello, Ken? Listen, Ken, I've got to talk to somebody. I I want you to be my guest at lunch. . . . No, I'll pay or I won't go! I asked you lirst, and I'm fair.ished." They met in Grosso's, a favored side street spot, and as- she her self had warned him, Carolyn was full of conversation. She talked between salad bites "Ken, don't ever tell a soul,"' rhe admonished, "but our little trick worked to a T! My hunch was right. Somebody did try to get that shipment. Robbed the freight train and stole the dummy box!" He was excited. "I saw the papers this morning. Tried to call you. Gosh!" "Yes. It's a good thing we sub stituted rocks. Bob is so grateful he was in tears. The stuff the chemicals I mean, were rather valuable to him. Kefl, will you take pay for that? A reward?" His lips tightened. She has tened on. "I know you won't. I didn't mean to hurt you, Ken." "Carolyn, I'd do anything for you. Always!" She dropped her eyes, and an swered that in a low tone. "I know it. Now I think I'd better tell you something. Something im portant." "Surely." "Ken, I love Rob Hale. I'm off the deep end!" Her eyes filled with tears then and he saw it when she lifted her head. Ken didn't say anything for a long while, but his face was a study. He had stopped eating. Finally he nodded ever so slowly. "All right," he whispered. "I'm glad you told me, Carolyn. These things have to be!" They understood each other; they didn't need to talk. Both knew Ken had loved her and hadn't ever said so in words. "Ken, you're the nicest some body in the world." Ho nodded again. "I under stand. I won't forget. In fact, Carolyn, I already knew." "You knew?'' "Yep. A man isn't blind. You let little things slip. And no wom an would do what you have been doing for him unless unless Well, power to him! And Carolyn, I'll always be around. Always!" She wanted to cry then. "Eat your lunch," he command ed, practically. "I think you need it. You're jittery." "I do need it. But I'm going away.". She suddenly squeezed his hand. "A million thanks, boy friend. And goodby!" She got uj abruptly and left him, paying both checks at the desk. He thought he understood why; her eyes had gone misty again. He didn't try to follow her. CHE went immediately to find Dr. Hale at state police head quarters, but both he and Miss Sormi had gone. In a taxi again, then, she raced back out to the laboratory. She had no idea what to expect next but she knew she had to continue her rather desperate, au dacious action. Bob, of course, had told Leana Sormi about Caro lyn's outwitting the train robbers. "She'll know I'm wise to her even if Bob isn't!" Carolyn half whispered, to herself. "At least she'll suspect plenty and be scared. And she'll fight back somehow!" The indefiniteness of that rea soning was itself enough to cause alarm. She couldn't quite decide what to expect of Leana Sormi. Maybe, she told herself once, she was imagining all this; maybe Leana was honest and not in volved in treachery at all. . But something deep in Carolyn re belled at that idea. She kept her taxi waiting while she located Bob in his office. "Carolyn! I was wondering where you" , "Get your hat at once!" she ordered. "And coat. Have you any money?" He looked at her with fresh sur prise, but he stood in awe of Caro lyn Tyler now. He didn't question her at all. He had a few hundred dollars in a small office safe, and got that. They departed in her taxi without speaking to anyone. Presently, he sat back and smiled at her. His old, beloved tone of teasing suddenly re-appeared, the first hint of personal feeling toward her he had shown in days. Carolyn's heart leaped. "If it wouldn't be presumptuous, miss, I'd like fo" know what brew you are brewing now." "You will," she flashed baefc. She led him meekly from the taxi to the plane when they reached the airport. Her hired pilot came out, saluted genially. She motioned him to his seat and in a moment he had the motor roaring. "What's all this?" Bob wanted to know. But he saw that she was still eager and smiling. "Am I supposed to take a sky ride?" "Look in there," she pointed. "In that box, Bob, is your precious substance. I have had it trans ferred out here." He was abruptly serious again. He went inside to touch the box. "But, Carolyn!" They had to shout above the motor's roar. Somebody had closed the cabin door, and Bob saw her signal to the pilot. The roaring multiplied. The ship quiv ered, began to roll. Bob's chin dropped. He v.r.s standing stooped over in the low ceilinged cabin there, and h? gripped the back of a seat. Carolyn smiled again reassur ingly. "Sorry, Bob, but just take it easy. The pilot's mine. I hired him and he is doing only what I ordered!" "But" "Sit down!" she shouted, happily this time. "It just had to be thia way. We are going to Arizona!" Tn Ret Continued! FEDERAL TAX CALENDAR For October, 1945 October I Excise taxes: Re turns for August 1015 due and tax payable. October 10 Withholding tax: Tax withheld from wages during September 1945, if more than $1(10, payable to an authorized depository. Employer, however, at his election may pay same to collector on or before October 31. October 15 Corporate in come and excess profits tax: Re turn due and one-fourth of tax payable for fiscal year ended July 31, l'J-lo. One-fourth of tax payable for. fiscal years ended October 31, 19 14, and January 31 and April 30, l'J45. Personal income tax: Return due and tax payable for fiscal year ended July 31, l'J45. Non-residents: Income tax re turns of foreign partnerships due; foreign ' corporation,-'' ' and i aliens' returns due and one-fourth : of lax payable for fiscal year ended April 30, l'J45. One-fourth of . tax payable for fiscal years ended July 31 and October 31, 1944, and January 31, 1945. : I'artiU'i ships: Return -due- for fiscal year ended July 31, 1945. Fiduciaries: Return due and one-fourth of tax payable for fiscal year ended July 31, 1945. One-fourth of tax payable for fi-cal years ended October. 31, 194 4 and January 31 and April 30,1945. . Exempt corporations: Informa tion return on Form 990 due from certain exempt corporations with accounting periods ended May 31, 1945. October 31 Old-age . benefit jtax: Return for third quarter of 194o due and tax payable, un employment tax: One-fourth of 1944 tax payable if . employer elected to pay in quarterly in stallments. Withholding tax: Rer turn of tax withheld from wages during thjrd quarter of 1945 due and tax payable. Excise taxes: Returns for September 1945 due and tax payable. Information returns: Return of tax withheld from interest on corporate bonds during third quarter of 1945 due (tax payable June 15, .1946.) o EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSOX ' NEA Washington Correspondent WAIITGTON, D. C The recruiting sergeant and pet!y officer r,r? ' about to take their places again as familiar fixtures on court ho-;se sqi-nres throughout the land. But what a difference there w ill hr. Gone will be the call to the rough and ready life and high "'ad venture, mis is anomer age. And the Army and Navy and Marine Corps, and probably the Coast Guard too, will be offering the young man of all things Social Security. Join the Marines and get social security. Join the Navy and r ce your bene fits pile up. Rewrite the words to the"" old buu'o call, "You're in the Army now; you're not be hind the plow. You're gonna get rich " and "o forth. Did you know, for inciar.ee, that a young man of 18 to 20, enlisting in the armed services trdav, can retire after 30 years of service; rt the ripe young age of 48 or 50 and live c:i a penri'-m? jf ine recruit is reasonably smart and mm as hi. 5 it; and polish he can rise to the equivalent grade of a ma.:ter srrgcar't and retire on $145 a month, -which is clover and not lu.y. Edson ;ne err, jEXT to this social security song, the recruiters will be singing endearing young charms of: 2 training for a technical cr.; 5 4 4U..i : it.. i . j luumuwi uuuugii combes in me armca services extension i:r.: versity, 4 travel. It will look like a life such as rich men used to offer their ne'er-do-well sons. And when the Navy comes along with its old offer of a girl in every port, the line becomes positively sybaritic. First thing you know, the taxpayers wiil be complaining about """"s supyuri iu many strong, r.eauny mates in sucn luxury. Seriously, the services are finding it necessary to adopt thi': r.ew line to get any takers. The Navy needs half a million volunteers and the Army may need twice that number. Recruiting falls off after every war. Reform of Army and Navy life is necessary, therefore, and the soldier, sailor and marine have been visibly elevated in the social scale over the past 30 years. JREVENTING the next war will be increasingly a job for techni cians in all grades to push the button!? and operate the gadget.-. That's why the appeal has to be made to a higher type of young man. Whether all these blandishments will work, remains to be ; c n. Plenty of people are skeptical. Four and five years of war are a lot of war and most men have had a bellyful). Yet a special campaign will be waged to secure enlistments from men row in service. Those who have put in five years have only 25 more to go before retire ment. They will be offered bonuses in mustering out pay, immediate fur loughs home, bonuses for length of service on re-enlistment, no re ductions in rank, choice of branch of service in which to 'tudy'' and choice of country in which they wish to serve. If inducements such as these don't produce the required number of volunteers, it will mean continuation of the draft. Cold en thev Mrs. the tin i- Charles Gonzales came home Saturday ni;ht from eampTn Texas, to spend his furlough with his father, Clark Gonzales, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ed have moved into the home purchased this summer from Gertrude Hayes. On Wednesday evening churches of the eommunitv ered a reception for the teacher:' in our school. It was held at the Methodist church with Rev. Mel vin Zichek presiding, and Rev. C II. Lind giving the address of the evening. Special numbers were rendered consisting of a solo by Marianne Parish, with -Mrs. Tot man accompanist. and a, violin and piano number by Anna Nick las and Betty Sum ner. The chair man of the school board, Hariy Linder, introduced the teachers. Refreshments were served in the basement. Sgt. Donald Kelly sent a mess age to his mother, Mrs. Thcssie Kelley, saying he had arrived in Seattle, and would be home some time within the next two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duckworth went to Iowa on Tuesday to he present ior tne tuneral services for his mother. She was 91 years old when she died. Mrs. Bertha Ostertag received word that her youngest son had suffered a stroke. She started Sunday for Kentucky to be with him. i Mr. and are soon to wood. Thev 'The entire furnishings-of a 10-i-oom house ' w'eighing'-" 18,000 pounds was flown recently across, the continent overnight under the direction of - Manhattan ' Storage and Warehouse Co. A single-airplane carried tlie shipment, leav ing La Guardia Field late in the afternoon and unloading at Los Angeles the next morning. Fans Paying $200 For Series Seats CHICAGO U.R The Chicago Cubs, pennant-winningesi club in major league history, returned home to a baseball-crazy city to day where fans were paying as much as $200 for a fingle box seat for the world series. . The Cubs won their lGth Na tional league pennant Saturday, when Hank Borowy beat Pitts burgh,, to set an all-time high for both leagues and break a Cub Giant tie which had stood at 15 since 1938. But of more importance to the fans, many of whom met the team at Union " station this morning, was that the Cubs had climaxed a comeback story of one of base ball's grandest guys, Manager Charley Grimm. In the brief span of a year and a half, the banjo - strumming Dutchman lifted the Cubs from the National league cellar to a championship. Dismissed as Cub manager. , in '1938, .- Grimm was brought back in May .of 1944 to succeed Jimmy WiL-on when the Cubs were floundering in last placeThe up ward swing was " lightning fast. The Cubs scooted to fourth place in 1911 and h pennant this year, thereby establishing a new Na tional league mark. Mrs. Rudolph Kuchn be residents of Elm have purchased the house owned by Mrs. Charles Wood. Mrs. I tarry Allen of Nebraska City visited friends here the first of the week. Cpl. Howard Vogt arrived home from Germany and is on furlough with his parent-, Mr. ami Mis. Henry Vogt. On Monday evening the rela tives and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Eorncmeier ter.deicd them a surprise charivari and re ception. Roscoe had many inter esting pictures and narration.-; to entertain those present. On Thursday evening a laige crowd was expected in Elmwood to attend a Cass County Farmer's Union meeting. The weather in terfering not so many could come. I -"I'.. (L G. Douglas. Mrs. Kail i lloiton. ;ind Miss Myitle W 1 attended the Cou n.v Federaic.l club meeting at Nohawka. Mrs. Douglas was chairman of the cour tesy committee. Mrs. Sumner went to Falls City on Thursday to be present at tl birthday dinner for lur !:!lh granddaughter, Nancy Quc'lhorst Mr. and Mis. Alio Pratt wen to Brookings, South Dakota ' i:.1 latter part of the week to see their son, Richard, who is in annv sch ool there, and to bring him ami two other Cass county boys home for a short visit here. Mrs. Lee Coon visited Mrs. Al len at Nebraska City on Thurs day. Wm. Hot tie sold his properly in west Elmwood recently to Mr. Holka who has been living there for some years. Mr. and Mrs. Ed (lannoway re turned Tuesday morning from a trip to Cedar County, Mo., where they visited relatives. They repuil the Nebraska corn as looking bet ter than any they saw on the way. Dr. Williams lias received word that his three sons are all on the way home from the navy. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Taylor and son of Cheyenne, Wyoming visited thiir parents and other relatives this week. An interesting and helpful S. S. board meeting was held at the Methodist church on Sunday after the members had a fellowship dinner together. Mrs. Bronn is the new superintendent. THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Frguio ) HAS THE MOST - - ."i .' f sAh"i OF EQUAL SIZE KiWir H, h IN THE W YkV iL tot I a' -r-rrrT,- ' COPR. mi 8. fiA SERVICE. INC. S 1L liZ SPARKLING DIAMOND IN VOUR RING WAS ONCE A AUSS OF WET, DECAYING LEAVES'. OR AOSS. T. MrREO! U.'S PAT OFF. "H'hem a car breaks downA IT HOlD5 TOU U(-yWf JIMMY" DlEU, MwMm NEXT: WMlJejjvgrittji '.largest artificial bod of water?